Chapter 148 Where to Live?
Speaking of this courtyard, Gu Pingan actually knew something: "I heard from my father that when Third Uncle said he wanted to pave the courtyard with stone bricks, many people in the village said that Third Uncle had been hiding his true identity all these years! He saved up so much wealth, but he actually used stone bricks to pave the courtyard!"
"How did Third Uncle make money?" Gu Tang became curious. She looked around. "This hall and the side rooms are all made of bricks and tiles. There are also the walls and floors of the courtyard. It would cost at least 20 or 30 taels to build everything here."
"I heard that he won it by guessing lantern riddles."
"Guess riddles?" Gu Tang was surprised. Can this thing make money?
"I heard it from my father. He told me not to tell anyone that my third uncle was good at guessing lantern riddles. During the Lantern Festival, there was a lantern riddle party in Bei'an City. When my third uncle was out for fun, he met a group of rich young men who made bets on guessing lantern riddles. My third uncle was recruited by a rich young man, and he won all the levels and was rewarded with fifty taels of silver!"
Understood.
"So this courtyard was built with the fifty taels of silver?"
"Yes, when the house was built, the villagers didn't understand why it was built so well."
Gu Ping'an approached Gu Tang and lowered his voice: "Before this house was built, my aunt and uncle were both too sick to get out of bed, and the doctor said they couldn't make it through the New Year.
My third uncle asked someone to quickly build this courtyard, saying that it would be a good place for my aunt and uncle to live in before they passed away, so that their lives would not be in vain.
This was vaguely in the original owner's memory.
The original owner was busy running around in the mountains all year round. She seldom spoke to anyone at home, let alone joked or chatted with her father. She only happened to hear her father chatting with Gu Ping'an in the yard and overheard a few words.
This yard was built in August, but my aunt and uncle died in October. The doctor was right, the mother and son did not survive the New Year.
"Second sister, which room do you want to live in?" Gu Ping'an saw Gu Tang looking around the house and thought she was choosing a room, so he asked curiously.
Gu Tang came back to his senses: "Let me take a look first."
Taking out a bunch of keys given by his third uncle, Gu Tang took a rough look around all the houses.
There are three main rooms. The middle one is used for dining and entertaining guests. My third uncle lives in the east room, and the west room is converted into a study.
There are two side rooms, the east side room is the kitchen and the west side room is the granary, which are filled with grain, dusty jars, various dried vegetables and other items.
The three rooms in the east wing were all empty, separated from each other and not connected.
The west wing is different. Although it is also empty, two rooms in the west wing are connected and only one room is separated.
Gu Ping'an followed behind Gu Tang and saw this connected room with a look of surprise: "Second sister, don't you dislike having herbs in the room, which makes you sleep uneasy? This room is good, one is bright and the other is dark, which can separate the herbs from the sleeping room, and will not disturb your sweet dreams anymore."
The herbs that Gu Tang collected previously were not sold immediately after being collected, but accumulated to a certain amount before selling them.
Some medicinal materials need to be processed before they can be sold at a good price.
These are all things that have been discovered, so it is difficult to save them in the system backpack.
After all, her father would sometimes ask about the medicinal herbs, and sometimes he would help move the herbs out to dry.
Therefore, it can only be placed outside and cannot be put into the system backpack.
But she was worried about leaving them outside because the herbs often got lost.
As for who stole it, Gu Tang could roughly guess it.
But if you don't catch the thief in the act, suspicion alone is useless.
In desperation, Gu Tang followed the original owner's example and kept all the medicine in his own room, no matter what kind of medicine it was, as long as it could be sold for copper coins.
There are all kinds of medicinal herbs, each with different medicinal properties, smells all kinds of strange things, and have different effects on the body.
If you smell it for a long time, different states will appear, sometimes it will affect your sleep, and sometimes you will feel tired and exhausted.
Originally, Gu Tang planned to ask her father to build a house for her in the backyard so that she could put all these things in it.
But before she could say anything, the adoption issue came up.
"It's no longer necessary. I put the herbs in the house before because I was afraid someone would steal them. It's different now. We have adopted him, and no one will steal the herbs anymore."
Gu Pingan was not as optimistic as Gu Tang: "Have you forgotten that we still have our elder brother? He is a man with dirty hands and feet."
"My eldest brother basically steals food and drinks. He doesn't know the value of things and doesn't have the courage to steal medicinal herbs." Gu Tang can guarantee this. Gu Laian is a coward.
Gu Ping'an paused. This was true. His elder brother was indeed like this. He didn't know what was good and didn't have the courage to confront his second sister.
However, no matter whether she will use it or not, my second sister must occupy this set of two connected rooms.
"This room is spacious. The inner room is for resting and sleeping, and you can use the outer room to burn incense." Gu Ping'an said in a firm tone, and the most important point is.
"If you don't occupy such a spacious house, when my elder sister comes over later, she will definitely like this house! Can you give it to her?"
That’s definitely not possible!
Gu Tang said seriously: "She wishes! If I don't live in this house, no one else can live in it!"
After saying that, he took the key, opened the door, and went into the room to check the situation inside.
The house was empty, with nothing in it, but the floor was paved with stone bricks.
"Move my things in first, and put the jars and other things in the corridor."
Gu Tang instructed Gu Ping'an to move his things into the house first.
After moving the things, Gu Tang asked him where he lived.
"West Wing! I'll live in the West Wing too!" Gu Ping'an said without hesitation.
Okay, they, the brother and sister, can live together in the west wing.
Gu Tang opened the lock on the next room and asked Gu Ping'an to move his own things in, as well as her father's things, and put them in there until her father came back.
After unloading these light items, the brother and sister started to unload the jars.
The jars were placed along the corridor in a long row!
After unloading the jars and taking a break, the two men bent down and unloaded four baskets of meat and vegetables and carried them to the kitchen.
After a while, all the things in the car were unloaded. Gu Tang locked the gate again and went back to continue moving.
The oil and salt she found in the east ear room of the Gu family last time had been kept in the system backpack. She didn't remember it just now and didn't put it out.
I can only wait and go back and find another opportunity to release it.
When her father comes back later, he will definitely count the things they moved. If he doesn't see the oil and salt, he will definitely ask about it.
After returning to Gu's house, Gu Tang found an excuse to send Gu Ping'an away, and then cleaned out the things in the system backpack again.
She took out everything that had appeared in front of her father.
There were also some trivial things in her father's room, and Gu Ping'an searched them again. Regardless of whether they were valuable or not, he loaded them all into the car.
The brother and sister were about to push the cart and set off. Gu Mei in the west wing called out to them and hurriedly chased after them, asking them to wait for her.
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